The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01

Learn from the earliest days to inure YOU
principles against the perils of ridicule; yor
can no more exercise your reason II you live in
the constant dread OF laughter than you car
enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror
CT death.
Thinking that one is thinking is not thinking
TO think is to hold thought as in a wise till il
is measured, weighed and put in proper relation
to the subject under consideration. Many a
man has spent whole morning under the de-
fusion that he was thinking when he was near
ly as leep.- Christian Advocate.
Forgiveness is one of the Brooks we drink
out of by the way. Forgiveness is not simply
taking sin off, but putting God into the man.
1t is necessary that man should sin IN order to
get God into bis soul. When man bows down
in despair, God comes and folds about him
like the sunshine about q plant, and whispers
words of forgiveness. and the man rises without
his burden. Is he the same man? Is there not
something better? Repentance Is not simply a
taking eff a burden, but into the heart comes
passion for holiness. Oh, il could only make
each man here to know the truth. God secs
preciousness in us that we do not see in our
selves, and that j. why be is always reminding
us of our sins. When he redeems us he makes
ourselves; that's all.-[Phillips H Brooks.
The sneer against merely conventional and
social use Of Lent as season OF recuperation
for greater social dissipation after Easter, is
now one of the stock resources Of the PROBES
sonal newspaper wit. But 80 far as Lent Is
used in this way it is purely social and not in
the least in a religious matter. And SO far aS
tits purely social matter it is OF incalculabe
benefit to social life. 1.-THE religious usages OF
the church are OF such force in community
that society uses its results to carry out law
of its own and for its own benefit which other
wise 1t could not possibly enforce, this is not
keeping Lent. but it is proof OF the fact that
the church can accomplish that to which socie-
ty in itself IS unequal. The faithful in the
church keep Lent in Its true spirit. Very well.
1t is an encouraging sign OF the power OF the
church If the worldly find this their one chance
of saving themselves and social liie from their
utter break. down.-[The Churchman.
Theologcally be was not a safe leader; and
that because he was not atheologian. With all
his fine mental qualities, he was wanting IN one
He had not a logical mind. Intuitive rather
than logical, poetic more than profound, he felt
after truth by an exalted intuition that was
and held Il under the modifying
power OF a nature great with love. His
renowned father had system OF theology that
would hold together-each truth sustaining
every Other. If Henry Ward has formulated a
system, it has never appeared in print and
probably, If before the public, would go to
pieces under logical analysis. Nevertheless, he
has been great force and modityer in the theO
logical and preaching world. 1t would be hard
10 name the one who influenced SO many and
so much But his influence has been less like
the pillow and hoe In soma single field or corn,
and more like the genial sunshine and rain
poured over all fialds.-[ Evangelist